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What is it?
Windows Management Instrumentation - wmiexe.exe
What does it do?
wmiexe.exe - Here's a direct quote from MS about this: (source)
Effective management of PC and server systems in an enterprise network benefits from well-instrumented computer software and hardware, which allow system components to be monitored and controlled, both locally and remotely. Microsoft is committed to simplifying instrumentation of hardware and software under Microsoft? Windows? operating systems. Microsoft is also committed to providing consistent access to this instrumentation for both Windows-based management systems and legacy management systems that are hosted in other environments.
In Win98/NT/2000 this is a seperate process whereas in XP it is a part of svchost
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Virus Precaution:
The original wmiexe.exe from
Microsoft gets placed in the
Located at
C:WINDOWSSystem32wmiexe.exe . If you find it anywhere else then you should be suspicious for sure.
You'll want to keep an eye on
this google search for any known viruses.
At this time I have not found ANY viruses that run themselves using this filename. All of the results currently affect this file in some way, but do not actually run as this filename.
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wmiexe.exe is a Windows System File and should be in a system directory. If
it is then this application is safe.
Startup DB Entries:
( 1 ) "NT component
Disclaimer
Every attempt has been made to ensure the information about wmiexe.exe is accurate but alot of malware applications try to pose as valid applications. If it is something other than what was posted above please leave some feedback in the forum.
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